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US5987123A
US5987123A US08/675,687 US67568796A US5987123A US 5987123 A US5987123 A US 5987123A US 67568796 A US67568796 A US 67568796A US 5987123 A US5987123 A US 5987123A
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  • This application relates to operating systems and, more particularly, to a file system that validates an entity attempting a file access before allowing the entity to perform file operations.
  • the present invention overcomes the problems and disadvantages of the prior art by providing a method and apparatus that allows a computer system to trust both program and data files without the intervention of the user and with a decreased possibility of circumventing the model of trust.
  • a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes two levels of validation for programs and data.
  • a first level of validation specifies sources that the user has decided are trustworthy (or not trustworthy).
  • a second level of validation specifies sources that the system itself considers trustworthy or untrustworthy. For data to be acceptable, it must be acceptable to both levels of checking. Thus, for example, if the user decides to accept all data from entity "A”, but the system has decided not to accept all data from entity “A,” the file system would not store data from entity "A.” As a further example, if the user has decided to accept no data from "B”, but the system has decided to accept all data from "B”, then no data from "B” would be stored on the system.
  • a preferred embodiment of the present invention allows the user and the system to specify multiple acceptable signatures and further allows various ones of the multiple signatures to have different levels of access to the system (i.e., different permissions).
  • a preferred embodiment the present invention can be implemented so as to be transparent to the user and to co-exist with existing file systems.
  • a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a method of performing a file access, comprising the steps, performed by a data processing system having a memory, of: receiving an indication that an entity desires to perform a file access operation on a file of the data processing system; obtaining an affidavit of the file; checking that the affidavit is acceptable in accordance with a user signature data structure stored in the memory; checking that the affidavit is acceptable in accordance with the system signature data structure stored in the memory; and allowing the file access operation when the affidavit is acceptable in accordance with both the user signature data structure and the system signature data structure.
  • a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a method of creating a secure file, comprising the steps, performed by a data processing system having a memory, of: receiving an indication that an entity desires to perform a file access operation on a file of the data processing system; obtaining a private key of the entity; receiving data of the file to be created; determining a checksum of the file; encrypting the checksum using the private key, and creating the file and an associated affidavit that includes the encrypted checksum.
  • a preferred embodiment of the present invention is: a signature data structure stored in a memory of a data processing system, comprising: a first entity field storing a name of an entity trusted to perform a file access; a first public key field storing a public key of the first entity; a second entity field storing a name of an entity trusted to perform a file access; and a second public key field storing a public key of the second entity.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computer system in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a data flow of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows an example of a user signature data structure or a system signature data structure of FIG. 1.
  • FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) are flow charts showing how files are checked against the user signature data and the system signature data.
  • FIG. 5 is a flow chart of steps used to create signed files in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a block diagram of another preferred embodiment of the present invention in which the majority of the operating system must be verified before the system can be booted.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computer system 100 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • Computer system 100 is connected to line 106, which can be, for example, a LAN, a WAN, or an internet connection.
  • Line 106 can also represent a wireless connection, such as a cellular network connection.
  • Computer system 100 includes a CPU 102; a primary storage 104; input/output lines 105; an input device 150, such as a keyboard or mouse; and a display device 160, such as a display terminal
  • Primary storage 104 can include any type of computer storage including, without limitation, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), and storage devices which include magnetic and optical storage media such as magnetic or optical disks.
  • Computer system 100 further includes an input device 161 for reading a computer usable medium 162 having computer readable program code means embodied therein. Input device 161 is, for example, a disk drive.
  • Primary storage 104 includes a data structure 120 containing user signatures and a data structure 122 containing system signatures, as discussed below in connection with FIG. 2.
  • Memory 104 also includes signature checking software 124, which is also discussed below.
  • memory 104 also contains additional information, such as application programs, operating systems, data, etc., which are not shown in the figure for the sake of clarity. It will be understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art that computer system 100 can also include numerous elements not shown in the figure for the sake of clarity, such as additional disk drives, keyboards, display devices, network connections, additional memory, additional CPUs, LANs, input/output lines, etc.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention runs under the Solaris operating system, Version 2.3 and higher. Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a data flow in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • File 202 has an associated affidavit 206 (also called a "cryptographic Affidavit.")
  • affidavit also called a "cryptographic Affidavit.”
  • affidavit is checked against the signatures in the user signature data structure 120 and in the system signature data structure 122.
  • the file must pass both tests before it can be stored by the system.
  • File 202 contains two parts: a file portion 204, which contains executable programs or data, and an affidavit portion 206, which contains an encrypted checksum 210 and other administrative data 208.
  • Administrative data 208 includes the real identity of the creator of the affidavit, identifiers or pointers to other associated affidavits, dates and times of creation and expiration of the affidavit, and identifies co-signers of the affidavit.
  • affidavit 206 is a part of file 202 and in other implementations, affidavit 206 is a separate file that is associated with file portion 204.
  • affidavit 206 can be incorporated into some file formats as a comment line. Other file formats may allow the affidavit to be closely coupled to the file portion 204 in some known manner.
  • FIG. 3 shows an example of a signature data structure of FIG. 1.
  • Both user signature data structures and system signature data structures preferably have the same organization, and the format of FIG. 3 is used for both.
  • the user signature data structure -represents sources that the user has indicated are trustworthy and the system signature data structure represents sources that the system considers to be trustworthy.
  • each entry in the signature data structure has a name of a trusted entity 302, a type 304 of the entry (e.g., single entry or indirect database entry), a public key 306, and a series of values 308 indicating the type or types of permissions the entity has for the system (e.g., create, delete, read, write, execute, etc.). Every file access (e.g., every file open and delete operation) is checked against both the user and system data structures by the file system before the file access is allowed by the file system.
  • Every file access e.g., every file open and delete operation
  • FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) are flow charts showing how files are checked against the user signature data and the system signature data by the file system.
  • all files received by the system from an outside source must include an affidavit.
  • each file created and stored by the file system must have an associated affidavit.
  • the affidavit is a part of the file.
  • the affidavit is associated with the file.
  • the affidavit of a file is checked whenever a file operation is performed for the file. For example, the affidavit is checked when the file is created or loaded into memory. The affidavit also is checked when the file is read from, written to, or deleted.
  • FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) are performed by CPU 102 of FIG. 1 executing instructions of the file system/operating system that are stored in memory 104.
  • the steps of FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) preferably are performed each time a file access is requested
  • step 402 of FIG. 4(a) the file system gets the encrypted checksum 206 associated with the file.
  • step 404 the file system repeats the calculation of the checksum for the file using any known checksum method that was used to determine the affidavit. Steps 406-412 are repeated for each entry in the user signature data structure (or until a match is found).
  • step 408 the file system decrypts the encrypted checksum 214 of the affidavit using the public key of the current user signature data structure entry. Because the affidavit was created with the entity's private key, decryption of the affidavit using the entity's correct public key should yield a decrypted checksum for the file. Decryption using other public keys should yield an incorrect checksum
  • step 410 If in step 410, the decrypted checksum matches the checksum determined in step 404, then the affidavit represents an entity considered trustworthy by the user and the file has not been tampered with. Thus, control passes to FIG. 4(b). If no match is found after checking the entire user signature data structure, then the entity is not trusted and the file operation is denied.
  • Steps 420-426 are repeated for each entry in the system signature data structure (or until a match is found).
  • the file system decrypts the encrypted checksum 210 of affidavit 206 using the public key of the current system signature data structure entry. If, in step 424, the decrypted checksum matches the checksum determined in step 404, then the affidavit represents an entity considered trustworthy by the system and the file operation is allowed. If no match is found after checking the entire system signature data structure, then the entity is not trusted and the file operation is denied.
  • Some implementations of the present invention also include a "default" entry in one or more of their signature data structures.
  • entry 320 contains the entity "any” and allows the entity permission to read files.
  • FIG. 3 represents the user signature data structure
  • the user has indicated that he gives permission to any entity to open a file in read-only mode.
  • the system signature data structure must also allow the access.
  • either of the signature data structures may contain a "not entity” entry, indicating that a certain entity is not allowed to make certain file accesses (even if an "any" entity is also present in one of the signature data structures).
  • the "type" field of FIG. 3 allows the signature data structure to reference public keys stored in another part of the system, such as in a data base or another signature data structure stored elsewhere on the computer. For example, users may share a common signature data structure.
  • the user has decided to allow access by the entities owning all of the public keys in "Geoffs" database. In some implementations, the user must be an entity trusted by Geoffs database in order to access public keys therefrom.
  • the encryption scheme used is the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), described in Schneier, "Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C,” second edition, 1996, pp. 483-495, which is herein incorporated by reference.
  • DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
  • the encryption scheme used is the SHA-1 scheme.
  • one or both or the user signature data structure and the system signature data structure are stored on a PCMCIA card or some other removable storage medium.
  • the user simply inserts his PCMCIA card to personalize the user and/or system signature data structures of the computer that he is working on.
  • the file system must know that the signature data structures are so stored.
  • FIG. 5 is a flow chart of steps used to create signed files in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, when the files are created by the computer system 100. It, for example, files are created on another system and loaded into computer system 100 via the internet or a floppy disk or other portable or networked media, the files must have already been created and must have an affidavit associated therewith to be accepted by computer system 100. FIG. 5, however, deals with the situation when the user wishes to create a file on computer system 100.
  • the system obtains a private key of the entity creating the file. This may be the user's private key if the user is creating the file directly or if the user is running software that creates a file (e.g., word processing software).
  • the user is prompted for his private key and the user types his private key into the system or inserts a storage device on which his private key is stored.
  • private keys of users can be stored in a protected part of computer system 100.
  • a user may be required to enter a pin number before the system looks up the user's private key from a protected memory.
  • the file is created and written to storage, while the file system maintains a running checksum of the data in the file.
  • a "running checksum” is a checksum that is continuously updated as the file is written.
  • the system prevents file accesses by others while the file is being created. In some cases, portions of the file may be written to an external storage medium during file creation. This situation occurs, for example, when the created file is large.
  • a potential problem can occur if data is written to an external storage device during file creation, but the file creation operation is not completed. In this case, data will exist on the external storage medium, but the data will not have an associated affidavit. In a preferred embodiment, the file system is not allowed to access such files. Aborting the write/creation of the file before the affidavit is created causes the system to destroy the partially written file.
  • step 506 the file system encrypts the checksum from step 504 using the user's private key and writes the checksum to the storage medium, either as a part of the file or associated with the file, depending on the implementation.
  • all files created by the file system of the described embodiment have an associated affidavit.
  • each time a file is written to its checksum must be recompute and its affidavit recalculated using the private key of the creating entity. Some implementations wait until a file is closed before recomputing the affidavit. Again, a problem can arise if an error occurs during the write, but before the affidavit can be created and stored in association with the written file.
  • Once a file is created it can only be opened or deleted by an entity that passes the two-tier validation test of FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b).
  • the system allows a user to create two types of files: verified and unverified files. Verified files are required to have an associated affidavit and are validated as described above for each file operation. Non-verified files do not require verification before each file operation. files can be opened in either "verified” or "unverified” mode. In this embodiment, the file system would most likely have two "open” routines--one that requires verification of files that it opens and one that does not.
  • FIG. 6 is a block diagram of another preferred embodiment of the present invention in which the majority of the runtime environment (e.g., an operating system or interpreter) must be verified as described above before the system can be booted.
  • a small amount of program data is stored in a boot ROM 604.
  • the CPU 602 loads a signature of the runtime environment and basic software for computing a checksum and decrypting an affidavit.
  • the remainder of the runtime environment is loaded from secondary mass storage 610, along with its affidavit (which is an encrypted checksum).
  • the CPU computes the checksum of the runtime environment code as it is loaded and decrypts the affidavit using the public key from the boot ROM. If the checksum and the decrypted checksum match, the runtime environment load is completed.
  • the loaded runtime environment includes the checking software 608, which is used as described in FIGS. 4(a), 4(b), and 5 during operation of the system.
  • the described embodiment of the present invention incorporates two or more levels or signatures.
  • a file access must satisfy both levels before it is allowed by the file system.
  • both the user and the system may specify multiple trusted entities that are allowed to perform file accesses in the system. Trusted entities are specified for the system, not on a file by file basis. Various entities, however, can have various permissions associated therewith.

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